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Bargello
Bargello , 13th-century palace in Florence, Italy, which houses the national museum. Once the residence of the highest city official, but later used as a prison and as the office of the chief of police ( bargello ), it was restored in 1859 to receive the art treasures of the city. The Bargello is... Read more |
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Bologna
Bologna , city (1991 pop. 404,378), capital of Emilia-Romagna and of Bologna prov., N central Italy, at the foot of the Apennines and on the Aemilian Way. It is a prosperous commercial and industrial center and an important transportation link between S and N Italy. Manufactures include farm... Read more |
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Faenza
Faenza , city (1991 pop. 54,139), in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy, on the Lamone River. A special kind of richly colored ceramic, called faience or majolica, has been made there since the 12th cent.; ceramic art flourished from 1450 to 1550 and was revived in the 18th cent. The Manfredi family,... Read more |
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Loyola University of Chicago
Loyola University of Chicago at Chicago; Jesuit; coeducational; est. 1870 as St. Ignatius College, present name adopted 1909. It has a liberal arts college and a graduate school, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, social work, law, business administration, and education. The... Read more |
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landscape painting
landscape painting portrayal of scenes found in the natural world; these scenes are treated as the subject of the work of art rather than as an element in another kind of painting. Early Landscapes In the West, the concept of landscape grew very slowly. Nature was traditionally viewed as... Read more |
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Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle , 1820-97, Italian art critic and writer. Cavalcaselle studied painting at the Academy of Venice and traveled extensively through Italy studying its art treasures. He participated in the Revolution of 1848 and escaped to England, where he remained for several years.... Read more |
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Italian art
Italian art works of art produced in the geographic region that now constitutes the nation of Italy. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. In addition, Italian art has nearly always been closely... Read more |
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Alfred Stevens
Stevens, Alfred (b Blandford Forum, Dorset, 31 Dec. 1817; d London, 1 May 1875). English sculptor, painter, and designer, the son of a house painter. With the assistance of the local clergyman, who recognized his talent, Stevens was sent to study in Italy in 1833, at the age of 15, and remained... Read more |
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Reggio nell Emilia
Reggio nell' Emilia , city (1991 pop. 132,030), capital of Reggio nell' Emilia prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N central Italy, on the Aemilian Way. It is an agricultural and major industrial center and a rail junction. Manufactures include food products, metals, machinery, and electrical equipment.... Read more |
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landscape gardening
landscape gardening Arranging gardens to produce certain effects. Broadly, there are two main traditions: the Sino-English, with its retention of the informality of nature; and the Franco-Italian, with its geometric patterns in which nature is trimmed to art. The second tradition arose in Italy... Read more |
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Renaissance art
Renaissance art Style that emerged in Italy in the 15th century, heavily...differences between Gothic and Renaissance painting emerged in Florence in...artist. The creators of High Renaissance painting were Leonardo da Vinci... |
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Carolingian renaissance
Carolingian renaissance Cultural revival in France and Italy under the encouragement of Charlemagne. Having enlarged...artists from all over the world. He promoted Catholicism, art, and learning by founding abbeys and encouraging church... |
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Renaissance
...impulse, initiated in Italy, towards improving the...1450–1625). ‘Renaissance’ is now generally...identified stages of this renaissance (pre- or proto-, early...Bengal, black).‘Renaissance’ was first used alone in...lettres et des ... |
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Anglo-Saxon art and architecture
Anglo-Saxon art and architecture now only...buildings in Gaul and Italy.The great cultural renaissance of the late 8th and early...648.Anglo-Saxon art mirrors the characteristics...non-representational art whose effects rely upon... |
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ballet
...in the lavish court spectacles of Renaissance Italy, it developed in France following the marriage...Noverre, the concept of a unified art-work was also central to Sergei...establish classical ballet as a serious art-form and trained many of the key... |
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Costume
...recognizably from a different part of Italy: Pulcinella from Naples, Arlecchino...was through the academic theatre of Renaissance Italy and the Court play. The Italian intermezzi...over the whole field of decorative art, synthesizes all the tendencies... |
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Religious Drama in America
...Protestant clerics were sometimes characters in tales of Renaissance Italy, but these figures often seemed to derive more from...discouraging, especially since the theatre and other arts were dominated by the often‐irreligious left. Such... |
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Tragedy
...and Sophocles developed from the choral lyric, an art which reached its height among the Dorian peoples of...later European drama, were closet plays.Tragedy in Renaissance Italy, more under the direct influence of the Greeks than... |
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dissection
...the human body is the act or art of cutting open the body in order to...intellectual reawakening (the Renaissance) that commenced in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth...universities which were established in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, notably... |
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James III
...minting of the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy, showing James III...committed patron of the arts.This legend is broadly...s patronage of the arts—excepting the Trinity...James as a Scottish Renaissance patron remains an ... |
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Renaissance
...flowering that began in Italy in the 14th century...considered the first Renaissance architect; from his...architect of the High Renaissance, and Palladio. In...central concern to early Renaissance painters, such as Giotto...German soil. Out of the ... |
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Nazarene
...member of a group of German painters working mainly in Rome who from 1809 sought to revive the art and techniques of medieval Germany and early Renaissance Italy. • adj. of or relating to Nazareth or Nazarenes. |
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Middle Ages
...in philosophy and theology (SCHOLASTICISM). Gothic art and architecture had its finest expression in the cathedrals...anticlericalism. In the 15th and 16th centuries the RENAISSANCE in Italy marked a new spirit of sceptical enquiry and the end... |
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Charlemagne
...791–99), and restoring areas of Italy to the pope. His coronation by...well-educated man, he promoted the arts and education and under Alcuin his...scholars persisted in the Carolingian Renaissance. |
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Francis I
...He was in many respects an archetypal Renaissance prince, able, quick-witted, and licentious, and a patron of art and learning, but he developed into...in Spain by renouncing his claims in Italy, but hostilities were resumed and continued... |
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Julius II
...power of the Papacy. He conducted various campaigns in Italy, defeating Venice with the aid of France. In 1511...Maximilian to his side. Julius II was a patron of Renaissance art. His indulgence for the rebuilding of St Peter's... |
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The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy.(Review)
The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy, by Jacqueline Made Musacchio...to commemorate childbirth in Renaissance Italy is richly illustrated...social and cultural historians of Renaissance Florence such as Richard ... |
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Art and love in renaissance Italy.(Brief article)(Book review)
9780300124118 Art and love in renaissance Italy. Ed. by Andrea Bayer. Yale University Press 2008...Paintings at the museum, presents a series of essays on art, love and marriage in Renaissance Italy, followed by the exhibition ... |
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BOOKS: Ancient art of shopping; Shopping in the Renaissance by Evelyn Welch,...
...s Romeo and Juliet, set in Renaissance Italy, it is Lord Capulet, Juliet...was just as important in the Renaissance as it is today. Middle class...underwent an artistic and cultural renaissance, as this swagger portrait of... |
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Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy. .(Book Review)
...Art in Renaissance Italy. Los Angeles: The...Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy is co-authored...curator in charge of Renaissance objects in the Department...special interest in ... |
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Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy: British Academy Lectures. (book reviews)
...expects to have a survey of `Art and Politics in Renaissance Italy' will be disappointed...Palace somehow standing for `Renaissance Art'. In addition, the...have been able to make to Renaissance Studies over the past half... |
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SU VISITING PROFESSOR EXPLORES ART, NATURE, GENDER IN RENAISSANCE ITALY APRIL 6.
...Art Versus Nature: A Renaissance Competition in the Key...by the Department of Art and Music Histories in SU's College of Arts and Sciences. For more...Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance ... |
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The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist / Art, Theory, and...
...Sixteenth-- Century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne...Contemporary scholars of the Renaissance operate within the shell...what can the term "Renaissance" now usefully mean...Exorcizing the myth of the "Renaissance Man," however necessary...important terms ... |
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The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance...
The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy. By Michelle O'Malley...determined their costs in Renaissance Italy, defined broadly...of painters during the Renaissance, the prices they ... |
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The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography, and Politics in Renaissance Italy.(Book...
...The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University...Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy, Francesca Fiorani...intersection of art and science in ... |
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Love and marriage in Renaissance Italy.(THE ARTS)
...milestones during Renaissance Italy? Exploring the arts that celebrate family...society, but into Italian Renaissance culture in general...amusing journey back to Renaissance Italy, the place and...centuries after the ... |
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